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The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
Traverse the Guelph Public Transit system for a full ride of Guelph art culture us stops throughout the City of Guelph are looking a lot more colourful these days, drawing attention to local art and scenery. Traverse is a self-guided outdoor art exhibition that allows spectators to walk throughout […]
Marvel’s Avengers offers players the chance to see their favourite superheroes in action through two different game modes, various playstyle options, and opportunities for more customization in future releases ver since Insomniac Games teased The Avengers’ existence in a video game format, many have waited with baited breath for Marvel’s […]
Christoper Nolan’s Tenet attempts to save the movie theatre industry with stunning IMAX cinematography but fails to offer much else in plot structure, sound design, or character development hristopher Nolan’s highly anticipated spiritual successor to his smash hit Inception (2010) is finally here. It only took three delays from its […]
ave you ever wondered about Guelph’s Black history, and where it can be traced within some of the city’s neighbourhoods? This historical walking tour aims to guide you along Essex Street, Paisley Street, Norfolk Street, Macdonell Street, and Toronto Street in little under an hour to retrace the historical and […]
xperiencing Da 5 Bloods within the purview of a currently protest-ravaged and utterly divided United States is a unique cinematic experience that astounds the senses while simultaneously muddying the political goals of the film. Spike Lee’s tale of four Black veterans returning to Vietnam to recover the remains of […]
Since his 2017 single “Pull Up Wit Ah Stick” was released, Atlanta rapper SahBabii, aka “King Squid,” has been making waves in the underground music scene. Now, following his incredible, extremely overlooked past two albums, S.A.N.D.A.S and Squidtastic, we have Barnacles, coming for the three-peat. SahBabii has shown himself to […]
War, Pandemic, and the Homemaker Gillian Manford | Archives Clerk his is a time of changing conditions, of different habits and different modes of living. Many of the things we… take for granted no longer exist or must be adapted to present-day needs. And because our food is of the […]
Cleanness By Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) hen “Harbor” appeared in the Sept. 16, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, it seemed to be a small story, finely crafted, as all of Greenwell’s stories are, but it did not linger on my mind. It did not haunt me. […]
Sex, Drugs, Growing up and Rock’n’Roll ’m sitting in a local pub with a decent beer and two modern-day rock stars. Reid MacMaster and Owen Wolff, the guitarist and drummer from Toronto garage rock band Fade Awaays. It’s just a few hours before they’re set to perform with Goodbye Honolulu […]
Miss J Alexander speaks at Guelph n Mar. 2, one would expect the W.F. Mitchell Athletics Centre to be filled with training athletes, students playing intramural with friends, and the few folks who haven’t fallen off their New Years’ resolutions just yet. However, that night, the Events Centre was brimming […]
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